Example sentences of "but from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from the inward motion to deliver |
| 2 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 3 | In some cases the disqualification is not only from a particular event within a tournament , but from the whole tournament . |
| 4 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 5 | It is in its form as a general theory of cognition that the behaviouristic approach is most clearly refutable , but from the general refutation we can refute its application to perception . |
| 6 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 7 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 8 | The story of the HSTs powerwise does not belong here but from the point of view of passenger comfort we should note that while much was conventional there was also much that was new … |
| 9 | Tiananmen Square may have been ‘ handed back to the people ’ , according to Peking 's mayor , Chen Xitong , but , as the statue makes clear , real power comes not from the people but from the gun . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ The ideas have been fed from the top down , but from the bottom up they have been accepted . |
| 11 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 12 | The Galleries will act as a one million sq ft magnet to six million shoppers , not just from Birmingham , but from the entire West Midlands conurbation and beyond . |
| 13 | One of the peculiarities of this problem comedy is that the main obstacle to the course of true love comes not , as is traditional , from the older generation but from the young hero , Bertram . |
| 14 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 15 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 16 | And in any case the main gains to efficiency will come not from privatisation , but from the legal necessity imposed by the EC ( which would have happened anyway ) to invest £25 billion over 10 years to bring water up to drinkable standards . |
| 17 | And in any case the main gains to efficiency will come not from privatisation , but from the legal necessity imposed by the EC ( which would have happened anyway ) to invest £25 billion over 10 years to bring water up to drinkable standards . |
| 18 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 19 | It says something for the delicacy of the proposal that it comes not from the Japanese government , but from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 20 | But from the firm 's point of view the local sales of a subsidiary are as much foreign sales as any export is . |
| 21 | But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ . |
| 22 | The analyses have also shown much interesting detail : sub-groups have emerged when marble fragments have been found to have extremely similar isotope ratios , which suggests they came not only from the same quarry but from the same part of the quarry . |
| 23 | — But from the look of that bedroom , I 'd say he was a right maniac . ’ |
| 24 | A line of cabs at the taxi rank waited for their drivers to emerge , not as normally from the green cabman 's shelter reeking of cabbage and saveloys , but from the long humped air-raid shelter among the dusty trees . |
| 25 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 26 | Apart from the Garter , the Order of the Thistle , the Order of Merit , and the Royal Victorian Order , other decorations come not from the fount of honour but from the desk of a Whitehall functionary or the nudge of a political friend . |
| 27 | In the ancient world these dies were engraved by hand , but from the early medieval period punches began to be hammered into the die to make up the designs . |
| 28 | Perhaps the groupishness of the image of social control comes not from the way quarrels were conducted but from the way men made peaces . |
| 29 | Certainly he saw the Pinkie campaign not only as a military endeavour , but as something in the nature of a religious crusade ; Scotland would be snatched not just from alliance with France , but from the yoke of Rome . |
| 30 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |